Student Council Kindness

Submitted by arlene.haymond on

Last week, one of our younger students had glasses on in the playground. Somehow one of the lenses fell out into the woodchips. Some of our  student council members were outside at the time, and decided to help look for the lens. If you know how many woodchips are on the playground, you know that it was a major undertaking to go through them to find the lens.  These amazing kids found the missing lens and returned it to the student.  What great examples of kindness and perseverance these students exemplified. Thank you for being positive role models for all of us.

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Lori Nielsen

Symbolic Funeral for English

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Sra Diaz's First Grade Dual Language classes celebrated a symbolic funeral for English in her class.   After putting their promises that they would not use English, into the casket, Sra. Diaz gave them a "promise necklace."

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Alexandra Diaz

Ice Cream Sandwich STEM

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6th graders used their knowledge of insulators to attempt to insulate ice cream sandwiches in pencil boxes. These stayed outside of the freezer for 3 hours in the insulated boxes. Sadly, none of the groups reached success as each were mushy after 3 hours, but it was a great STEM learning experience.

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Susan Crook

Sixth Grade Science

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6th graders have discovered that cold water is more dense than warm water proven by this experiment showing that cold water sinks and warm water rises to the top.

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Susan Crook

Winter SEPs

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SEP conferences will be held on Thursday, Jan 14. Please contact your teacher if you have not signed up.

Spirit Day Class Winner!

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Way to go Ms. Price’s 5th grade class!

They won the privilege of having Whiskers the Wildcat visit their class this week by showing their school spirit last Friday.
 
Don’t forget to wear a Westside shirt this THURSDAY (or school colors, red or blue) because there is no school on Friday.
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Shannon Arroyo

Día de Los Reyes in DLI First Grade

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Sra. Diaz's First Grade Dual Immersion celebrated Día de Los Reyes with the traditional Mexican bread Rosca de Reyes. They also got to enjoy two Puerto Rican stories and the Reyes left them a little present at Sra. Diaz’s house. The Wisemen follow her wherever she goes!

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Alexandra Diaz